Post Rectal Cancer Play

I'm mid treatment for rectal cancer (PSA: for the love of God get the colonoscopy... the prep isn't that bad, and early detection is the key to survival). It's a treatment that will require surgical removal of a good chunk of the rectum (but not an ostomy...).

Every person and every cancer is different, of course. But... anyone here take a similar walk and eventually return to enemas, plugs, pegging, all that fun stuff?

I had sigmoid cancer over 20 yrs. ago. Besides the sigmoid, they also took the top of the rectum; including the upper rectal sphincter muscles. Six weeks post-op the surgeon did a rigid sig on me to check on healing. He told me he didn't want "ANYTHING" put up there for at least 6 months. At 7 months, guess what I returned to?

After I was healed, I found out that to stop having a BM 6-10 times per day, I needed to take 2 qts. of tap water every 3 days. This gives me 2+ days of relative peace so I can live a semi-normal life. I tried all the anti-diarrheal drugs they Rx'd, but none of them worked very well at all. Taking fiber only made the frequent BM's worse. The bag has been a Godsend for me.

Thanks @jimmyt44. Glad to hear your walk through hell ended well. Unfortunately, colorectal cancer is more common that folks think.